About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Khorion

With less than three months now until Publication Day for Daughter Of Blood, I’ve been inspired to spend some time with characters from The Wall Of Night series, in the same way I spent time on the worldbuilding in A Geography Of Haarth.

I decided to start by focusing on minor players to begin with, because: “I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”

Today’s character is:.

Khorion: Lieutenant of the Gate bastion, in the Keep of Winds.

“Khorion, the Lieutenant of the Gate, simply looked bleak. It must be hard, Nhairin supposed, when one expected to bear the brunt of any attack, to be tied to the main gate while a major battle was being fought inside the keep itself.”

"THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world."--Robin Hobb

Thornspell

Jacket art by Antonio Javier Caparo

Thornspell is my first novel and is published by Knopf (Random House Children's Books, USA). It won the Sir Julius Vogel Award 2009 for Best Novel: Young Adult and was a Storylines Childrens' Literature Trust Notable Book 2009.